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ON Semiconductor has announced a new range of ultra-low noise LDO regulators with the industry’s best power supply rejection ratio, enabling better performance in noise sensitive analog designs...

THine Electronics announced launching a CDK, Camera Development Kit, which provides an innovative ease-of-design tool to advanced camera system developers. More advanced camera systems require specialized co-dependency of multiple components, resulting in more complicated design challenges...

Since the late 1970s, designers have successfully improved the effective resolution and spurious performance of A/D converters by adding dither – uncorrelated noise – to a converter's input and then using DSP techniques to average out noise from the converted data. The most common dithering method adds random-amplitude noise to an A/D converter's input signal...

Renesas Electronics Corporation announced three programmable power management ICs that offer the highest power efficiency and smallest footprint for application processors in smartphones and tablets: the ISL91302B, ISL91301A, and ISL91301B PMICs...

Broadcom announced two new product families in the StrataDNX™ line of switch system-on-chip devices. Building on the industry’s most pervasive silicon platform for service provider networking, the new products extend StrataDNX technology to new high volume markets and customers closer to the edge of the carrier network...

Although an SMPS can protect itself against permanent short circuits, it sometimes has problems when dealing with transient overloads. Transient overloads are not short circuits but can push the power supply above its nominal load value. This scenario occurs with typical loads such as printer heads and small motors...

Designers of internet of things sensors, environmental sensors, smartwatches, medical/preventive health wearables, and other size-constrained devices can now increase battery life and functionality using the ultra-low power MAX32660 and MAX32652 microcontrollers from Maxim Integrated Products...

Often, you need to transmit a couple of bits or bytes of data to a microcontroller without a direct cable connection. One simple way to achieve this goal is to use a widely available IR receiver, such as a TSOP17xx or similar receiver from Vishay that finds use in IR-remote-control applications...

Vishay Intertechnology launched its first Automotive Grade phototransistor optocoupler, the VOMA617A. The new device combines a high current transfer ratio with a low forward current of 5 mA in the compact SOP-4 mini-flat package...

Targeting use in portable-system applications that require raising a battery's voltage to a higher level, IC boost regulators often include output transistors that can drive storage inductors. However, most boost regulators' absolute-maximum input-voltage rating typically doesn't exceed 6 V, an adequate level for battery operation...